Administrative CoordinatorThis role is based out of our Arden Hills, MN office. Our work environment includes a hybrid structure which includes 4 days in the office and 1 remote day (M/F).
This position supports the Dairy Foods Research and Development team and will provide back\-up support for Executive Admin. You will be responsible for executing day\-to\-day business tasks while providing excellent customer service both within the organization and external customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategically manages interactions and prioritizes people and situations in need of attention.
- Provides proactive calendar management that maintains schedules, including day\-to\-day management and long\-term management of meetings, projects, and priorities.
- Coordinates preparation of meeting briefings for key meetings including agenda, meeting materials,
- presentations and other correspondences.
- Coordinates events ranging from small to complex in person, virtual, and hybrid events, understands meeting technology and has the technical savvy to support events.
- Agile and willing to be pulled into projects outside the immediate job description, where administrative participation is of importance to the R\&D team.
- Proactively coordinates complex travel arrangements.
- Proactively coordinates preparations and on\-boarding of new employees and interns.
- Maintain and update department databases to include personnel information and services dates.
- Oversee Prescription Safety Glasses Program for department employees.
- R\&D Learning Hub Administrator creating and assigning safety required training.
- Ensures proper documentation and timely submission of all expenses and invoices using Concur.
- Initiates process improvements to improve department efficiency and effectiveness.
- Create purchase orders and requisitions, obtain approvals and maintain. Create reports to track and monitor spending as needing.
- Track plant trial expenditures, track down missing data and pull together reports working with R\&D Director and finance cross\-functional partner.
- ELN Administrator (electronic lab notebook); set up user profiles, update templates and data fields for business changes, perform system changes, troubleshoot system related issues serving as the liaison with IT or vendor as needed.
- High School Diploma or higher
- 5 or more years of administrative support experience; including coordination of projects
- Experience identifying problems and working to resolve them before they escalate
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite of products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams); Knowledge of Zoom platform required
- Ability to multi\-task with many interruptions while remaining efficient, prompt, and professional; flexibility in changing work priorities at a moment’s notice
- Must demonstrate professional and effective interpersonal communication skills across all levels of team members with the ability to adapt communication style based on audience and situation
- Strong planning, organizational, time and project management skills to prioritize and coordinate workflow across multiple projects
Education, Experience, Skills needed:
Salary range: $51,520 \- $77,280 (in most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges)
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